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Male secondary-school student engagement rates with school counsellors, as compared with female engagement rates
(ePress, Unitec, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-06)This article reports on a statistical investigation into the engagement rates of male secondary-school students with school counsellors in co-educational state secondary schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. The data analysis ... -
Inquiring about cultural components of early childhood education
(ePress, Unitec, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-06)Culture and diversity are familiar yet challenging concepts for early childhood kaiako (teachers). This is a background paper to stimulate thoughts and queries around cultural components in early childhood environments. ... -
Online from Monday: Lecturers’ experiences of the rapid transition to online learning delivery following the first national emergency response to Covid-19
(ePress, Unitec, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-06)Aotearoa New Zealand’s health response during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic significantly impacted the tertiary education sector. Lecturers at tertiary institutions were required to make a rapid transition from ... -
The role of VET teachers in the future
(2021-09)Introductory ideas 'Invisible' work The reform of VET in Aotearoa A role for VET teachers VET teachers Teaching in VET Skills and knowledge required Practices that lead to health quality teaching A professional ... -
Disruption in the classroom: When hands on becomes hands off
(2022-07-01)New Zealand’s lockdown response during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the vocational education sector. Teachers were required to make a rapid transition from familiar, face-to-face teaching and learning to ... -
Supporting associate teachers: Considering a decade+ of Network support
(2021-11-16)In 2008 an article was written to capture ATs understanding of their role (Professionalism) Students need to be able to (Practices) Expectations for ST practice Key areas that ATs wanted ITE providers to consider Implications ... -
Moving to the future: Incorporating ulstrasound as a teaching tool of anatomy to medical imaging students
(2021-07)INTRODUCTION Undergraduate medical imaging education has recently moved towards making anatomy course content directly applicable to future clinical practice. Teaching anatomy to medical imaging students can prove ... -
Innovative modern teaching tool adapted by Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Unitec
(2018-02)Outline of this presentation • Introduction • The importance of innovative modern tool • Choice of system -UniTrain • The applications or learning program of UniTrain • Future trends in Engineering Education • Conclusion -
Whakatupua te rito: Improving the experiences of postgraduate tauira Māori within vocational education
(2021-12-25)WHY THIS STUDY? Māori students generally do not attain the same levels of tertiary success as Pākehā New Zealanders across all levels of higher education including postgraduate study (Richardson, 2018). Chauvel and ... -
Biculturalism, belonging, and vocal pedagogy: Experiments in embedding mātauranga Māori into the voice curriculum at a New Zealand acting school
(2021-07-31)OUTLINE Who am I? Who are my students? Why is belonging important for an actor? How does belonging link to the idea of biculturalism at Unitec? What is mātauranga Māori? Why should I embed mātauranga Māori into the ... -
Desires and doubts on cultural sustainability: A study from Aotearoa New Zealand
(2019-09)Original study - research objectives To know about the cultural components incorporated in an early childhood teacher education classroom; To reflect on how these components impact the learning of students (student-teachers); ... -
Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Research House: a collaboration between student design–makers and a local building contractor
(Monash University, 2019-10)Carter Holt Harvey Research House was a summer–school programme designed for architectural students to digitally design and fabricate a small dwelling in conjunction with construction professionals. The design required ... -
Covid-19: Experience of online learning from accounting courses at Unitec
(2020-11-09)AIM OF STUDY The paper is reflection on the teaching and learning practice in Accounting in the first semester of 2020 when New Zealand was in a period of lockdown The pandemic lockdown in late March 2020 was a rare ... -
Keynote presentation: Teaching into a changing world: Maintaining curricular currency in a continually evolving landscape
(2021-11-24)My research relates to how Screen Education might learn from past changes in order to keep ahead of the current rapid and continuous changes the Screen Industries are currently experiencing. Today, I’m going to be talking ... -
Crossing over the cultural boundary to success: A case study
(2021-11-24)The case and our initial responses My observation and analysis My approach with a clear intention The theoretical framework i base my approach on What happened next was a great opportunity The outcome The benefit of ... -
When language skills support is not enough for an international nursing student to pass her placement: A case study
(2021-12)This case study explores my support of a nursing student who failed her placement twice but passed all her theoretical assessments while on campus. When she failed in her second placement with the effort on merely improving ... -
What movement counts as students' mathematical knowing
(2021-11)In educational research, and in teaching, we often privilege students’ verbalisations and written artifacts as demonstrations of their knowing. Increasingly, however, research in a variety of fields, including cognitive ... -
Building inclusivity, diversity and equity in my practice: A case study
(2021-11-23)The case and our initial responses My observation and analysis My approach with a clear intention The theoretical framework i base my approach on What happened next was a great opportunity The outcome The benefit of ...
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